The Labour Party (LP) has called for an immediate investigation into the six-month emergency rule imposed in Rivers State, describing it as a politically motivated move to control the state’s resources and political structure.
Speaking in Abuja late Monday, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, accused President Bola Tinubu and Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, of orchestrating the emergency rule through the appointment of Sole Administrator Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas.
Akeni alleged that Ibas merely acted as a proxy for Tinubu and Wike, claiming the real intent was to seize control of the state’s treasury and political machinery.
According to him, “There are two designs by President Tinubu and his favourite South-South sidekick, Wike—the political and the economic. In both, they succeeded. Admiral Ibas’s only real achievement was serving their interests.”
He warned that the people of Rivers would ultimately decide their future, stating, “Tinubu and Wike may wake up in 2027 to find that it is God and Rivers State’s 7.2 million reborn citizens who truly own their destiny — not the two clay emperors currently riding roughshod over Governor Simi Fubara and the treasury.”
The LP insists that a probe is necessary to uphold democratic integrity and accountability.
